2023年6月15日 · Derek Sikes, curator of insects at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, once calculated that about 17,489,393,939,393 mosquitoes hover over Alaska each summer. Yes, that’s 17 trillion. Sikes did not weigh each one individually, but he calculated that the combined weight of Alaska’s yearly mosquito crop is 96 million pounds.

2025年2月13日 · Many insects including mosquitoes survive temperatures below freezing in Alaska. This freezing tolerance is accomplished by two different biochemical processes. In the first process, the insect's body water is replaced by glycerol, a type of carbohydrate, which acts as an antifreeze and keeps the body cells from rupturing when temperatures ...

2012年4月11日 · Mosquitoes in hibernation can survive temperatures down to about 25 below zero. But years with a meager snowpack may cause quite a few mosquitoes to freeze and die when the mercury plummets. Yellowjackets, also supercoolers, may take quite a hit in low snow years. But a lack of snow doesn’t effect the eggs of mosquitoes.

2013年3月28日 · “In Hawaii, (malaria) kills birds,” Sehgal said, mentioning that native honeycreepers no longer thrive at lower elevations where malaria-carrying mosquitoes moved in. In Alaska, “it could affect the number of eggs they lay, or perhaps it might make it harder for them to migrate. It’s just something we don’t know about.”

2005年6月30日 · Massive Alaska yellow-cedar trees contain natural preservatives that repel mosquitoes, kill ticks, and prevent diseases from attacking other trees. Alaska yellow-cedar has the strongest wood of any in the state, and grows on coastlines from Prince William Sound to northern California.

2003年5月1日 · Chances of the virus taking hold in Alaska are slim, according to Beckmen and Jim Kruse, an insect expert at the University of Alaska Museum. Birds carry the virus, and mosquitoes spread the virus by biting infected birds and injecting it into other birds, people or horses. Alaska has natural limitations for the spread of the virus.

2025年2月13日 · Depending on the species of mosquito (and Alaska has many), the egg-laying can take place in pools of stagnant water, in tree holes or on moist ground. Some species of Alaskan mosquitoes do not hibernate, but lay their eggs the previous year and leave the little darlings unattended to overwinter as best they can. They usually do pretty well.

2008年7月2日 · In a 1995 sponsor statement for Alaska House Bill 239, Alaska Rep. Irene Nicholia stated a reason the dragonfly was more worthy to represent the state than the mosquito, which came in second by 879 votes when ballots were tallied from every public school in …

2010年6月23日 · Because of they come to us, mosquitoes are perhaps the most noticeable of Alaska’s insects. Peter Adler, a professor of entomology at Clemson University who does work in Alaska, reported the possibility that more than 12 million adult mosquitoes may live above each acre of the worst-infested northern tundra.

2024年10月24日 · An Alaska seabird his a citrus smell that may repel mosquitoes and ticks as effectively as store-bought repellants, an Alaska scientist has found. Alaska seabird makes its own bug spray | Geophysical Institute